Gigabits, watchdog timeouts and downtime, oh my!

[Thomas Moyer]

Brad Waite wrote:

> Thomas Moyer wrote:
>
>> Brad Waite wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Decided to move into the Gigabit world yesterday and picked up a SMC
>>> 9452TX for my 4.10-STABLE box.  I rebuilt the kernel with the sk device
>>> and while it works somewhat, I'm getting 'sk0: watchdog timeout' errors
>>> and the card goes down for a few seconds before waking back up.  This
>>> happens under relatively light traffic, too.
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>>>
>> I seem to be getting these same timeouts as well.  I'm using the 
>> integrated NIC on the ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe Motherboard.
>
>
> What's the chipset on the board?  And is it a single-proc?  I'm 
> running two P-IIs on my Intel MB440LX.
>
It is a single P4 chip with an Intel Chipset 865PE & ICH5R